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Work at height

Jury clears builder of HSW Act charge after electrician was left paralysed

Regulation/Enforcement

Call to end safety deregulation after Grenfell Tower blaze garners wide support

Work at height

Building contractor fined after poor planning delays MEWP rescue

News continued

Lifting operations

Falcon vows to learn from latest fatal crane collapse

Plant and machinery hire specialist Falcon Tower Crane Services has promised to learn safety lessons from a crane collapse in Crewe, Cheshire, last week in which two workers were killed.

Lifting operations

Construction worker injured by 500 falling scaffold fittings

A principal contractor and a construction firm have both been fined after hundreds of scaffold fittings weighing a total of 1 tonne fell 10.5 m from a crane and struck a female worker.

Hazardous substances

Petrol leak that put public at risk lands Tesco with £8m fine

Tesco Stores has accepted an £8m penalty after pleading guilty to a major pollution incident, which saw 23,500 litres of petrol leak in to a Lancashire sewerage system and rivers. £5m of the fine was levied for failings under the Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations.

Features

Accident reduction

Bullying

Career development

Features continued

Leadership

Leader interview

Dominic Wigley, Merlin Entertainments

Two years on from the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash the operator’s most senior safety leader talks about crisis management and building a public safety brand.

Fire

Case study

CERN – collision course

The underground centre straddling France and Switzerland is home to the 27 km tunnel containing the Large Hadron Collider and some very particular hazards.

Leadership

IOSH Middle East Conference

The institution’s annual Middle East Conference saw the launch of its five-year strategy and explored developments in Qatar’s worker welfare standards and how the Qur’an can support a strong safety culture.

Columns

Subash Ludhra

Why training procurement without a strategy is throwing money away

Lawrence Waterman

The virtues of collaboration

Products and services

Personal protective equipment

The Rush+ from Bollé Safety: the epitome of safety, style, protection and performance

Work equipment

Eurolec reveals a new-look website

Personal protective equipment

U-Power to reveal its new RedLion footwear at Safety & Health Expo 2017

Products and services continued

Road safety

JSP vote the new AlphablocTM Space Saver the front-runner of road traffic separators

JSP Ltd has launched a unique new road traffic separator called the AlphablocTM Space Saver. This robust product is the ultimate choice for all road contractors as the unique foldable design allows increased quantities on a pallet saving both transport costs reducing carbon footprint and halving...

SoloProtect and Suzy Lamplugh Trust co-locate at Safety and Health Expo 2017

Located on stand L170

Lone worker safety provider, SoloProtect, has announced they’ll be co-locating with leading personal safety charity, Suzy Lamplugh Trust, at this year’s Safety and Health Expo. The two will be located on Stand L170, within proximity to the Lone Worker Education Theatre.

JSP hands over large donation to the Lighthouse Club at the JSP Construction Industry Pro-am

JSP are delighted to donate £12,785.00 to the Lighthouse Club raised from sales of their Lighthouse range of Safety Products. For every product sold in the UK from this selected range, JSP make a contribution to this valuable charity.

The money raised will help towards promoting and...